Nokia's Stephen Elop is only a 'short term CEO'

Counting Nokia as a tech company that does not jump into the media tablet pond without dipping a toe in first.
The Finnish handset maker will not come out with two hundred and first tablet on the market that you can not tell from all the others, according to Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop.
There are now over 200 different pills on the market, and only one of them [iPad] does very well, said Elop in an interview on Finnish TV this week.
My challenge to the team is that I do not want to [Nokia] to be two hundred and first tablet on the market that you can not tell from all the others, he continued, according to a mocoNewsreport the interview.
We need to take a unique perspective Nokia.
So the team is working hard on something that would be differentiated from the others on the market.
We are in a hurry, but there is a rush to do the right thing.
The assets include Nokia's own proprietary operating system, Symbian and Linux-based mobile operating MeeGo like Nokia developed with Intel and others.
Nokia will continue to provide support for Symbian and work on MeeGo despite the new direction the company is taking with Windows 7 Phone, insisted Elop on this year's Mobile World Congress.
Of course that was then.
Last week, Nokia announced that they will transfer 3,000 employees who work on Symbian development to Accenture.
The week before, put Nokia and Microsoft's official stamp of partnership to develop Windows 7 Phone devices.
And what about Google Android? Given Nokia's commitment to Windows, it seems unlikely that the company would turn to a rival operating system for a future tablet.
In addition, Nokia believes that the margins are too slim for Android-based phones, said Elop PCMag in February.
Even if a company is making all kinds of money with Android, it is very well understood that ...
It is possible that the company feels the same way about Android tablets.
Of course, Elop not argue with Google's ability to bring Android-based devices to market in time.
The handset maker will not deliver its first Windows 7-based Nokia Soft phones in volume until 2012, he said, despite admitting that there is pressure to deliver [the first device] in the year.
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